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nearly or exactly reaches the nostril, and the hind limb extends to somewhat 

 beyond the axil, rarely as far as the ear. Some of the largest specimens 

 measure very nearly 5 inches, the body being 1^ inch. 



The coloration also is variable ; it is usually bronze brown, sometimes with 

 an olive and often a greenish metallic tint. The four white bands, two along the 

 edge of the back and two at the sides, are generally well marked ; however, in 

 some specimens the dorso-lateral bands are very indistinct. Again, there are as 

 a rule two series of black dots, separated by reddish brown ones, on the back 

 along each white band, and similar black spots, almost forming irregular bars, 

 are at the sides between the white bands, and also below the lateral band. In 

 two specimens all these black spots are remarkably small, and in one of a dis- 

 tinct greenish brown coloration they are nearly absent, but the white bands are 

 well marked. This specimen is one of the two which I noticed as possessing a 

 pair of anterior frontals, and very closely corresponds with Ophiops Seddomei, 

 Jerdon* (= monticola apud Beddome, Mad. Jour. Med. Sc. for 1870). 



I collected near Kandala, on the Western Ghats, a specimen which 

 agrees in every point with Beddome's description of monticola. It has the 

 uniform greenish brown coloration with the dorso-lateral white stripes very 

 indistinct, but the lateral ones well defined ; there is a pair of anterior frontals 

 present, and the femoral pores are more widely separated in the preanal re- 

 gion, than in any of the specimens of true O. Jerdoni which I examined. 

 Considering the variations which I have noticed in undoubtedly identical 

 specimens of O. Jerdoni, I cannot but doubt that O. Beddomei (= monticola) 

 will prove a really good species. However, more specimens must yet be ex- 

 amined, in order to settle this point. 



3 GrTMNOPS MICROLEPIS, Blailf. 

 Blanford, Jour. Asiat. Soc. B., 1870, xxxix, p. 351, pi. xv, figs. 1 — 5. 

 A few specimens of this species, which was described from a single spe- 

 cimen from the Central Provinces, were collected by me at the coal mines of 

 Kurhurbali, W. Bengal, f One specimen has 5, the other 6, pairs of chin- 

 shields, the last pair in each case followed by a smaller shield. In other 

 respects of structure of shields and scales, proportions of body and coloration 

 the specimens perfectly agree with Blanford's description, except that the 

 number of scales in one transverse row between the 6 longitudinal enlarged 

 rows on the belly, and counted across the back, is generally 56-64 instead of 

 about 50 ; but this is evidently a character which may be expected to vary with 

 the size of the lizard. There is a good deal of variation in the number and dis- 

 tinctness of the dark spots accompanying the white bands ; in some specimens 

 the former nearly become obsolete. The tail is reddish in young specimens, 



* Jerdon, in Proo. Asiat. Soc, Feb. 1870, p. 72, 

 t I found it since abundant in Katch. 



